Would you take a job that paid you in fancy Four Season's lunches? We doubt it would be extremely time consuming: wake up, get dressed, go to lunch, file a column. Sounds like about a five hour day to us — tops. But, in Pranay Gupte's case, being paid in lunch just wasn't enough. His recent resignation from the New York Sun (written in the third person) reveals that Gupte has decided he needs to start working for cold, hard, cash. (He tried to pay his rent in foie gras, but his landlord thought he was cursing him out … didn't go too well.)

Pranay Gupte has left The New York Sun where he wrote a daily column of profiles, "Lunch at The Four Seasons." Mr. Gupte could no longer afford to contribute pro bono, as he had for the last 20 months, and the Sun — which continues to struggle financially in its fifth year of existence — did not have the money to pay him.

We guess sometimes lunch just ain't enough (har, har, har) Which is why we need more socialites doing journalism. They don't actually need the money and they have lunch at the Four Season's anyway. We'd of course have to find a B-Lister who would sink to the levels of writing for the Sun … hey what about that Melissa Burkelhammer girl?

New York Sun 'Lunch' Columnist Resigns In Third Person [Fishbowl, NY]